- GANG FIT -
(Part One)
Much of Gang Fit’s content contradicts the usual advice – if you
follow it you will undoubtedly get grief from most sections of
society. This is what happens when you start thinking and acting for
yourself.
The majority of adults are modern-day slaves, do as they say and
you’ll end up the same way. From the very first page they will hate
this book - they’ll say its message is anti-social and encourages bad
behavior. Yes, bad behavior as they see it. If you want to be an
individual when you’re older, and not a clone, you will have to be
different to them. This means breaking rules.
Oldies have become fossilised, stuck in their ways, unable to see
things the way you do. Furthermore, their physical condition has
deteriorated to the point where the fuckers can hardly run for a bus.
They have no pride. This book is only ‘anti-social’ in their world, not
yours. What you’re doing is building a strong physique, an
independent mind and a warrior spirit. That’s something to be proud
of.
You are young, you have dreams and ambitions. Inside you there is
something wild, powerful and unstoppable - something waiting to be
unleashed. Adults had this once; now they haven’t. This is what
they’re scared of, so they call it bad behaviour. So, be prepared for a
fight, because that’s what you’re gonna get.
Contents
Introduction
Smash up the world
Discover different worlds without a spaceship
Don’t leave your education to school
Dynamic Endurance
The Educated Idiot
Become unemployable
Survive without money
Somatotype
Mental strength and fearlessness
Obliteration
Out of work in summertime
Brotherhood
Asteroid threat and you
Unleash the beast
Street Olympian
Us vs Them
The Street Scientist
Fear
Don’t waste your time doing shit
Super Strength
Berserker
Create problems
Jump off a building
Cowardice
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
Anger is an energy
Ritalin Boy
Off Grid
Human marshmallow
“There is always tomorrow”
Food
Boomerang
Fucked-up-ness
Exploitation
King of the Hill
Oobleck
Develop your talents
Now you see me, now you don’t
Muscle and Strength
Claws, Horns, Teeth and Hooves
Milo of Croton
Never been a better time to be a nobody
Introduction
People are constantly telling you what you should do, how to behave and how to live
your life - but before you follow the herd, look at the individuals who are telling you
this. What do they look like? Do you want to be like them? Gang Fit shows you a
different way – it is completely unique in that much of the content is shockingly at odds
with the advice you’re getting elsewhere. Aren’t you sick and tired of listening to the
constant jabber about education, university and employment? Adults say that all that
shit is the reality of life - “Billy! Money doesn’t grow on trees you know; be
responsible, you’ve got to pass your exams and get a job!” Listen very carefully - that
is their reality, it doesn’t have to be yours. If you do it, you will get somewhere in life
but it won’t be the place you want it to be.
In reality there are probably less than five people on the entire planet who really want
you to do well in life. No one else gives a shit. Some young people can’t seem to deal
with this, so they write awful poetry and pretend to self-harm. That’s not the answer;
fighting is. You need to fight and bust-up the usual way of doing things. Be aware
though that being independent and rejecting the rules and conventions that don’t suit
you will severely wind people up - in an attempt to put you down they’ll bracket you
as mindless, argumentative, juvenile and aggressive. Fuck them - your life is yours.
At the same time as fighting the brain-dead you also need to declare war on yourself -
your own insecurities and weaknesses. This is the real challenge. Your own mind is
what holds you back the most. Your weaknesses, fears, and timidity are like ballistic
missiles that will destroy your ambitions and kill your attempts at progress. The most
important thing for you to do - far more important than exams and degrees, is to
assassinate your weak mind and replace it with a warrior mind.
From now on, decide what you want and ignore all the crap that others vomit. Shed any
low-level attitude you may have about yourself. Build your body and strengthen your
mind. Approach things like you’re some sort of scientist - experiment on yourself, test
your limits and push the boundaries. Unleash the wild beast inside you and live free or
die trying.
Smash up the world
Some arse-wipe once told me, “the world doesn’t owe you a living”, but the crusty old
coffin-dodger didn’t have the brains to comprehend the flipside, that the free individual
doesn’t owe the world either. You don’t owe anything to anybody, especially those
individuals who think they have some sort of authority over you. Oh, I forgot…the
world doesn’t have to do shit for you but you have to do what you’re told? What sort
of arrangement is that? Were you asked about this?
Every person on the planet was born out of a woman’s vagina, just like you. They were
naked and covered with blood and crap, just like you. They had their umbilical cord
cut, just like you. For a whole year they pissed and shitted themselves, just like you. No
one has authority over you.
Smash up the world.
Smash up the people who tell you what to do. Smash up the person who tries to
intimidate you. Smash them up. Smash up their ideals. Smash up their beliefs. Smash
up their authority.
You have to stir up trouble if you want to achieve anything or be your own person. In
reality, when you think, talk, and act like a free individual, trouble will come your way
whether you want it or not because it’s in the nature of slaves to despise the free.
Young people like you are constantly being blamed for the ills of society; how can this
be? You didn’t make this society, adults did; if there are any problems they are to blame.
So you might as well ignore them and their concerns. The World is yours now whether
they like it or not.
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Your mental attitude is the most important possession you will ever own – more
important than the strength of your biceps, the size of your winky or how much money
you have in your bank account. A weak, fearful and timid attitude means you’ll be at
the mercy of any tom, dick or harry(iet). Your attitude determines whether you’ll be a
victim or a success.
The child is born a genius but by the time it gets to middle-age it has become a complete
idiot. Since you were born, adults and teachers have been filling your head with their
ideas – what to think, what to like and how to live. The problem is this - if you follow
advice from a slave you’ll become a slave. Unless you’re some sort of retard you
wouldn’t deliberately choose to become a slave, but it happens in slow motion without
you noticing. The whole system is set up so that you’ll believe there is no other way –
and slowly, slowly, you’ll start to believe the system is actually good for you; your
brainwashing is then complete.
When you allow people to control and determine your life, you just become a
performing flea. Go to your nearest railway station at rush hour; you’ll see the
performing fleas going to work - every morning going through the same routine;
collecting in their little groups on the same spot of the same platform, waiting for the
train to deliver them to their jobs – a sort of living hell.
And they tell you slavery is history?
One of the most exhilarating opening five minutes of any film is from ‘28 Weeks Later’.
The main character, Don, is running for his life from flesh-eating zombies that have
broken into the house where he is hiding out. The zombies kill all the occupants, but he
manages to escape by jumping into the front garden from an upstairs bedroom window.
He pelts across a field – the zombies are new-skool fuckers in that they’re fast like track
sprinters. Luckily, just before he’s about to get his brains eaten, he comes across a
speedboat moored on a nearby river and manages to get away; the boat’s propeller
mashing up a few Z’s in the process.
The thing about zombies is that they don’t just kill you – you die, then you become one
of them. In the same way, adults say they’re educating you and showing you how to get
on in life – but they’re not, they’re just trying to turn you into mini-versions of
themselves. Just like the zombies, they are doing their best to destroy your brain and
obliterate your identity.
Discover different worlds without a spaceship
TASK - Rather than sleep, stay up all night. Don’t go to bed. At 1am leave your house
and wander the streets. Do this with mates or on your own, and wear something dark
so you’ll blend into the background. Things you never notice during the day will show
themselves; new sights, new sounds, different people, perhaps some weird shit.
Observe the movements and shenanigans of the cat, the fox, the rat, the tramp and the
drunk. Take note of the shady characters and individuals who inhabit the nocturnal
world. This is the realm of the vampire, the werewolf, and all the other dark entities of
horror stories. Whilst these entities only exist in imagination, the night can still be an
eerie and dangerous place. Climb over walls, wander downs alleys and investigate
empty buildings - you’ll discover places previously unknown to you.
If you’re in the city, go to the ‘red-light’ district and check out what’s going on. Stay
out ‘til dawn and see how things change - cars start intruding on the night, council
sweepers start appearing, the birds start singing, and the zombie nation begins its
commute to work.
You won’t find this in your school’s curriculum, yet it’s outside your front door, one-
third of the day you don’t really know about. They tell you to get a good night’s sleep
so you’ll be fresh for class; do the opposite – sleep at school and investigate the night.
Note: It may be that you’ll be stopped by the cops in a patrol car, “Wot you up to lads?
Why are you out at this time? Shouldn’t you be in bed? Where you going? Where d’you
live? Wot’s in your pockets?” Just say you’re going for a stroll - there’s no law against
that is there?
As soon as you start doing your own thing, even like going for a walk at night, you get
hassled. All ‘normal’ people should be tucked up in bed.
There are many different worlds. Your upbringing conditions you to exist in only one -
the 9 to 5 world of work and all the usual shit. Your parents don’t show you there are
other ways of living, neither do your teachers – it’s almost as if they’re keeping you
ignorant on purpose.
Here’s what to do: Stop whatever you’re doing for one week and start to investigate
other worlds. Do things you don’t normally do and visit places you don’t normally visit.
Speak to people you wouldn’t normally speak to. You’ll notice that the lives of some
people are completely different to yours and far different to the mainstream.
Don’t leave your education to school
Most teachers are teaching you garbage – don’t listen to them. Many of the things they
say are important are not important and many things they say are not important or don’t
even talk about, are important - some very important. Look at the successful people
you know, what are they expert at?
People say that school prepares you for life in the big, wide world – it does nothing of
the sort. Your teachers tell you this, but look at them, they have no money; they can
barely afford the rent for their crap accommodation. How are they able to advise you
about being successful in life? In a way they can’t be blamed, they just don’t know any
different. Even though the world has endless possibilities and opportunities, they have
been conditioned by their background to believe their way is the best way – ignore
them; leave them to their version of the world.
Teachers and other goons will come up with examples of individuals who have done
well by education; passed exams, went to university, got good jobs and so on - what
they don’t speak about are the untold thousands who haven’t benefited from this in any
way. And they’ll ignore the people you look up to who have done it by completely
different means. This is not saying that knowledge is not necessary, of course it is, but
there is classroom knowledge and real world knowledge, the sort that will help you in
your life. Furthermore, school is mostly teaching you to rely on someone else to feed
you, clothe you and house you. It’s telling you that you have to become “more
employable” by learning lots of unnecessary facts and useless shit.
Your school also tells you that you need to work hard to achieve success; well, take a
walk down any high street and you’ll see many hard-working people collecting rubbish,
delivering the post, driving buses, working in shops and sweeping the streets (there’s
nothing wrong with that if that’s what you want, but if you’ve got half a brain it
shouldn’t be what you want). Then there are the jokers who work in offices, living the
same routine everyday – hardly better than brain-dead zombies. The idea that you’ll get
somewhere just by “working hard” is the biggest lie of all. Many millions of people
work very hard yet have got nowhere in life. You can see the evidence of that all around
you
The problem with school is that it forces kids to learn stuff they hate or are no good at;
for some reason this is backed up by most parents.
There is absolutely no reason to do stuff that you don’t like doing. Decide what is
important at school and do that. If you love history immerse yourself in it. If you hate
geography do the bare minimum, or better still, drop it completely. From now on, do
what you’re interested in – not what others say you should be interested in. Some
teachers and educators will say there’s no need to learn Latin as it’s not needed in
today’s world. Well, if it’s interesting to you, learn it. That’s good enough. So, this is
not saying that you shouldn’t do anything as that won’t get you anywhere – just follow
what you want and ignore anything else.
We are constantly being told that knowledge is power and that education is the passport
to a better career, more opportunity, and so on – if you live in a poor African village
that’s true but here it’s not. In modern societies, the belief that more education, more
information and more knowledge guarantee a better life is completely untrue.
If you are having difficulty at school, don’t worry – the real education is outside school.
Furthermore, if you hate school there’s nothing wrong with you, it’s a perfectly natural
reaction to being caged.
Being locked inside the same building five days a week, doing what you’re told with
losers your own age, is good for you? People who believe that will believe anything.
Dynamic Endurance
TASK – find a half-mile (800m) route in your neighbourhood – don’t have any warm
up, just go outside and start running; fast as you can…don’t stop, keep going. When
your breathing gets difficult or your legs start feeling heavy, back off for a few seconds
then speed up again. When you’ve finished wait five minutes then repeat. Do this twice
a week for 6 weeks - by then you’ll virtually be able to sprint all the way.
In the US they have a horse called a Quarter Horse, it’s bred specifically to sprint
distances from 100m to 800m - some have been clocked at 55mph (88 km/h) which
isn’t much slower than a cheetah. They can cover 400m in 20seconds and 800m in less
than a minute. If you train like a Quarter Horse you will develop the sort of fitness that
you need to run from the Law - the majority of coppers have eaten far too many
doughnuts to be able to keep up with that.
You Them
If you want you can extend the distance to ¾ or even 1 mile – but no further! You want
a strong, athletic, and dynamic body – not the fragile ‘fitness’ of a marathon runner.
Long distance running will make you weedy and skinny, and in the process, kill any
natural speed you have. Endurance should always be built in at a fast or dynamic pace.
Note: Why no warm-up? Well, in what real-life situation would you be able to do a
warm-up? You may be running for your life. There’s a gang wanting to give you a
beating or the fuzz are chasing you – “Oh, excuse me, would you mind giving me a few
minutes to do a warm-up?”
It’s said that a horse can be pushed until it runs itself to death; don’t know how it dies,
perhaps it’s heart explodes, You can run a ½ mile so fast that you’ll think your chest is
going to burst – don’t worry, it won’t. What will happen is that your physiology will
undergo such a remarkable transformation that you’ll turn into the human equivalent of
a Quarter Horse.
Some other sessions to try (on track, road or grass):
1/ Sprint 200m (or 30secs) as fast as you can - rest for three minutes and repeat. Session
is finished when you have completed six runs.
2/ Run 400m (or 70secs) non-stop - rest for five minutes. Repeat three times.
3/ Run 300m fast (or 45secs) - rest for 90 seconds then sprint 150m (around 20secs).
Rest for five minutes. Repeat twice.
4/ Find a reasonably steep hill. Run up for 150m. Slowly walk down. The session is
over when you’ve completed six runs.
Note: This type of training is called ‘Interval Training’ - where you run a certain
distance, rest and repeat. There are many variations you can try, the distances can be
anywhere from 60 to 1000m with recoveries (rest) from 30secs to 10mins, or more.
TASK – You may have heard of high knees, basically ‘running on the spot’. The target
here is to do 300 in one go. Make sure the top of your thighs reach parallel to the ground.
This is pretty tough, after a while your upper legs will begin to feel heavy, but keep
going and make sure you are bringing your knees up as high as you can. Your posture
should be upright throughout, not leaning back, and keep on the balls of your feet. If
you can’t do the full amount straight away split it into two sets (with a minute or two
between each set). As you progress you’ll be able to do more in the first set until you
can complete the whole 300. Once you’ve achieved this try using some two-kilogram
ankle weights, they don’t cost much, and work up to 300 reps again. Do this twice a
week together with your interval training.
Additional task: Every two months complete one thousand high knees – then take a
week off from all exercise. The stimulus to your system will force your body to adapt
to a higher level. You can split up the full amount into any number of sets as long as
you complete the total.
High knees and interval training are very demanding and severely tax the lower limbs;
furthermore the heart, lungs, and circulatory system are challenged well beyond the
regular demands of long distance or ‘aerobic’ training. The burn you feel in your
muscles during this type of exercise is caused by the build up of lactic acid (specifically,
hydrogen ions) - known as ‘acidosis’. Lactic acid is produced because the energetic
demands of the exercise can’t be totally covered by the amount of oxygen you breathe
in, so some of the energy has to be produced anaerobically (without oxygen) – lactic
acid is the by-product of this anaerobic process. The ability to tolerate acidosis,
physiologically and psychologically, is the first thing older people lose. Make it your
friend.
The Educated Idiot
In many ways the more education you get the more of an idiot you become. Here’s an
example: A person flips a coin ninety-nine times in a row, each time it’s a head; what
is the probability that the hundredth flip will be a tail? Someone clueless in maths would
most likely say zero or “hardly any chance”. Conversely, someone who is good at maths
would answer 50/50, i.e. there’s an equal likelihood of heads or tails. At school that
answer would be right, as each flip of the coin is unaffected by previous flips; in the
real world however, that answer would make you a sucker. The right answer is zero.
The ‘clueless’ person was right. Think about it; the likelihood of someone throwing
ninety-nine heads in a row is a zillion to one – you are being conned. The coin is loaded.
Ask an adult, they usually get this wrong – ask a ten or eleven year old, they’ll get it
right. Most kids on the street will realise straight away they are being conned.
You are not taught to think at school, that is not the aim of academic education. You
are spoon-fed information so you can pass exams in subjects educationists have decided
are for your benefit. They decide the subjects and they decide the questions. All
education is doing is telling you what you need to know so you can answer the questions
they’ve set.
If you program a robot to make a cup of tea, it won’t be able to bake a cake. If you are
programmed in a certain way at school, you lose the ability to think in other ways.
Here is another question that you might have difficulty answering, even though it’s
straightforward if you have a clear head.
There are two cups, one filled with black tea (no milk), the other just milk. Take a
teaspoon of milk from the second cup and stir it into the black tea. Now take a teaspoon
of liquid from that cup and stir it into the cup with the milk.
Q: Is there more milk in the black tea cup than tea in the milk cup?
The more maths you’ve been taught at school the less chance you’ll be able to answer.
This is because your school teaches you maths in a way which makes you unable to
understand numbers. They’ve messed up your mind.
This is how people become educated idiots – they learn ‘facts’, statistics, dates,
geography, history, biology, etc. Unknown to them, most of the facts are untrue, only
partly true or completely irrelevant. However, the more exams they pass and the more
certificates they get, the more they believe they know what they’re talking about. If you
want to become an educated idiot believe everything you learn at school or university.
The next time someone boasts how intelligent they are because they’ve passed loads of
exams – feel sorry for the idiot…or knock their head off. That will be a new lesson for
them.
Become unemployable
If you tell most adults you don’t want a job they will react like you said their baby has
a face like a camel’s arse. Try it out and see for yourself. It’s pretty funny how
predictable and brainwashed people are.
These morons are shallower than a puddle of cat’s piss; they’re outraged because
“you’re a lazy, good-for-nothing waste of space with a bad attitude”. Apparently, it’s
your duty to “contribute to society” #suckmydick
Shit-for-brains will tell you that wearing a paper hat and working for Tesco is better
than nothing. Shit-for-brains cousin will tell you “there’s pride in work.” Shit-for-brains
mum will say “what makes you think you’re so special?” Advice: shift-delete these
idiots from your life - being surrounded by ‘shit-for-brains’ will turn your brains to shit.
You do eleven years at school so you can wear a paper hat? Fuck that. Most jobs you’ll
be wearing a ‘paper hat’ of some sort - a tie, a suit, a uniform or some other crap which
shows that someone owns you. You see those poor suckers in supermarkets? Forced to
wear flashing reindeer antlers at Christmas - where’s the pride in that?
People who base their self-pride on being employed are the sort of idiots who die six
months after they’ve retired; their minds are so undeveloped they have nothing to live
for.
If you’re ever in the unfortunate position of having a job make sure it’s only temporary;
if you carry on with it you’ll be trapped like a fly in a spider’s web. It is far more
satisfying refusing a job than accepting one. Always work on your own project or idea
– music, training, acting, dancing, business, crime, travel, sport, writing, rearing goats
or building a space rocket.
If you’re in a job now, think seriously about what you’re doing – you’ll likely find that
it’s pointless. If you do pointless things you’ll become a pointless person.
Being ‘unemployable’ means that you’re allergic to taking orders, as any real man
should be. Develop self-reliance and decide your own direction in life. Once you’ve
tasted freedom the world of work feels like slavery.
Survive without money
This is a disconcerting test. Disconcerting because it holds a mirror up to your own
bullshit about how ‘honest’ you think you are.
Survive without money for two weeks. That doesn’t sound like much does it? But I
mean have nothing except your accommodation. Where do you get food from? Perhaps
you’ll decide not to eat for two weeks – not likely. Would you steal food? Would you
shoplift? Would you eat other peoples’ leftovers? Perhaps you would scavenge from
supermarket skips or thrown away food from street markets?
When the shit gets tough you may be surprised at what you would do to survive. You
may convince yourself it’s only a temporary situation, so you have to break some rules
to get you through…but there’s no such thing as a temporary crime is there?
When you know your dark side, the things you would do or consider doing when the
going gets seriously tough, you become less concerned about other peoples’ deficits.
All notions of civilization fall away when survival is at stake. Don’t listen to
comfortable people who say, “I would never do that” – they are bullshitters.
Circumstances make people do all sorts of unholy things. Try and avoid being in a
situation where you have to do something awful to survive - work on something better.
But when things are hard, you have to do what you can to get through. That’s the harsh
reality. Accept it and understand you’re not perfect, no one is.
Don’t be hard on yourself for not being perfect, but you should be hard on yourself for
being a weak, whiney, pathetic victim – the universe hates weaklings, evolution gets
rid of them.
Somatotype
Somatotype refers to the build or physical structure of a person (soma = Greek for
body). There are three main classifications: Ectomorph, Mesomorph and Endomorph.
Ectomorph: Long and thin muscles/limbs; appearance is slim or skinny. Ectomorphs
find it hard to put on muscle and are resistant to putting on fat. They make good
endurance athletes, rock-climbers, high jumpers and light-weight boxers or martial
artists. The incomparable Bruce Lee was an ectomorph – if you’ve never heard of Bruce
Lee, where you at?
Mesomorph: Characterised by an athletic and muscular physique. Mesomorphs build
muscle easily. They make good all-round athletes, being fast, strong and lean.
Endomorph: The biggest of the three somatotypes. The endomorph has a heavy bone
structure and a predisposition to accumulate fat. However, underneath the fat is usually
plenty of muscle. Well trained endomorphs make good weight-lifters, shot-putters and
all types of strength athletes.
Bone Structure Ectomorph Mesomorph Endomorph
Physique
Absolute Strength Light Medium Heavy
Relative Strength Thin Athletic thick-set
Endurance Poor very good very good
Agility Good very good
Top Speed very good Good Poor
very good very good Poor
Good very good Poor
Poor
Many people are a mix of two or even all three types.
It may look like the mesomorph has the main advantages but whether something is an
advantage is context dependent.
Ecto – Agile and quick; can run rings round an opponent making them look foolish and
lumbering. Can run and run. Has the sting of a mosquito; cannot be caught.
Meso – Athletic and gymnastic; resilient and durable. All-rounders.
Endo – The strongest of the lot; has the potential to develop crushing strength. The
destructive power of a tank.
There’s a saying that you can’t turn a carthorse into a race horse; whilst this is mostly
true, it is possible to make the carthorse faster. The ectomorph can train to run faster
than most mesomorphs, and the endomorph can make themselves as lean as any
ectomorph. So don’t worry if you’re “naturally” this or that. Further, in the real world
there are many scenarios, options, challenges and opportunities - be aware of specific
natural limitations or advantages but life is too multifaceted to argue that these alone
determine your success in life.
Mental strength and fearlessness
There are many supposedly strong individuals who are psychologically weak. You may
know some. Their minds are fragile. They cry and moan because their girlfriend left
them or their pet chinchilla got accidently flushed down the toilet. More importantly,
they are unreliable in a crisis, disappearing when the going gets tough – these people
are worse than your biggest enemy; they will always let you down, undermining your
plans and efforts. They are a form of cancer – get rid of them.
Physical strength without psychological strength is virtually useless, like an elephant
being scared of a mouse.
If you are mentally weak and afraid, no matter what ‘weapons’ you may have you will
be firing blanks – your strengths will fall short at critical times. If you’re scared of
physical or psychological pain you will never, ever, overcome your weaknesses.
You know what you’re scared of. You know when you run from danger. The danger
can be real or in your head; talking in front of a group or facing up to someone bigger
than you.
The woodcutter knows that the strongest tree comes from the edge of the wood that has
been battered by the wind. This is the same for you. To become tough you have to open
yourself up to frightening situations so that over time your fears decrease, until
eventually they become nothing. If you can’t find any frightening or challenging
situations you and your friends should go out of your way to create some.
The Japanese Samurai warriors had a way of dealing with fear…
In ‘Hagakure: The book of the Samurai’, by Yamamoto Tsunetomo - The Master
advises the student Samurai thus, “Meditation on inevitable death should be performed
daily when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped
apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being
thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death
by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing
seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider
himself dead”.
Note: ‘Seppuku’ is ritual suicide by cutting your stomach open.
The Samurai master is saying to his students that the way to become fearless is to think
yourself dead already – once you’re no longer fear death or physical harm, you are
scared of no one. The only way that someone can dominate you is if you are in fear of
them or of the consequences of what they can do. If you are ‘already dead’ in your mind
you become impervious to threats or potentially frightening situations.
Once you’ve forged your body and mind to cope with the demands of the Street, when
someone tries to push you around you will be prepared - they will regret it.
Warning: You should be pragmatic and not suicidally heroic…there are some situations
that even a Gorilla would have to escape from – when you’re outnumbered you may
have to run, climb, jump or disappear into the background…“now you see me, now you
don’t”. Use your brain - there is no shame in running or backing down when all the
odds are against you. That isn’t fear, that’s commonsense.
CHALLENGE - Go with a friend or group of friends to your local high street on a
shopping day. Whilst everyone is walking around this way and that, your aim is to walk
in an absolute straight line down the middle of the pavement for at least 100metres.
Your mates have to watch to make sure you don’t deviate. After you’ve done this it is
their turn. This is a surprisingly tough challenge - you will come under intense pressure
to get out of the way of some people. People will mutter under their breath, some might
call you names, some may even threaten you – no matter, keep your resolve. Most
people will fail this test first time and some will always fail. If you mess up the first
time have another go until you have the psychological fortitude to complete it properly.
If you’re fearless you’ll be able to do it. You may need your friends if any trouble flares
up.
Bonus – this is hilarious to watch.
Fearlessness and mental strength are more important than confidence. You can’t be
confident at everything, that’s impossible, but you can have the guts to try. In any
endeavour there comes a point when your confidence may desert you, don’t worry
about this, it shows you have reached the edge of your comfort zone – this is the territory
that every successful individual or warrior inhabits. There is no exception to this.
Whatever path you decide to follow, if you take it seriously you will repeatedly hit the
outer boundaries of what you can cope with. This is where your true toughness is tested.
No book can give you this – you have to face it for yourself in the real world.
Obliteration
Mass control requires the obliteration of your identity. Whether it’s society, religion or
some other nonsense, either they control you by force (which creates resistance) or
more effectively, they control you by your consent. As soon as you don’t consent you
become an apostate, and apostates are hated by everyone including the people who are
still zombies.
Try this test: Live with people who work nine to five. Wake up after they’ve left for
work. Be in before they get home from work. Go out to parties during the week. Get up
early on a Sunday. Go to the gym on a Tuesday mid-morning. Stay up late during the
week. Basically, have a different timetable to them. Even though you may be perfectly
nice and pay your way, they will notice you are not like them, not stuck to their
schedules. As sure as a bear shits in the woods they will begin to hate you. See for
yourself. Slaves detest the free.
There’s only one certain thing in life – your death. Death is your complete obliteration.
You’ll only remain in memory, or maybe if you’re very lucky, in some sort of legacy.
Eventually even the people who knew or loved you will die – so that even the memory
of you will be erased. So what’s the point of being obliterated before you die? Your
consent and subservience to everything that society expects of you is the obliteration of
your independence and personal identity.
As soon as you start school your conditioning and entrapment begins. Then when you
leave school your conditioning continues, until you end up like all the other idiots
commuting to work. Most middle-aged working people aren’t happy with their lives,
many aren’t even happy with their long-term relationships – they are trapped.
To escape this you need to become a one-man-army, a force of nature. Smash things
up, create havoc, destroy things, destroy the old you, get used to hardship; endure the
feast and famine. You will need to become ‘insane’. You’ll also need to grow a force-
field around you to shield you from the people and forces who want to destroy your
ambition and individuality.
You’ll make loads of mistakes…some of which may have permanent psychological
effects - some good, some bad. Ignore the bullshit entrepreneur books about failing,
falling, picking yourself up and continuing. When people fail, they usually take people
down with them – some may be friends, associates or relatives. This is the hardest part,
there are hardly any clean failures, they’re messy.
But you have to try, because what awaits you is death and the death of all your loved
ones. Your obliteration is certain. But your obliteration before your death is up to you.
Out of work in summertime
Being unemployed with your mates in summertime is great - whilst everyone else is
cooped up at work you’re as free as a bird.
The city in summer is an incredible place to be, full of possibilities.
A fraction of the things you can do:
- Cycle, skate, and discover the city with your mates
- Swim in the rivers/canals/lakes
- Find a wall and paint a mural
- Do circuit training outdoors
- Devise challenges and tests of strength and courage
- Go to as many parties as possible
- Chill out in parks and green spaces.
- Go to the coast in your mate’s car (or avoid the ticket inspector on the train)
- If you’re that way inclined, in most cities the galleries and museums are free.
- Create videos with your mates and post on the Internet
- Turn your gang into a business
- Find your nearest athletics track and do the Beer-Mile challenge
- Set up some sort of event - music, sport, dance, etc
- Construct a ‘boat’ out of materials you can find, and float down the river
- Shoot a film
- Cause mayhem
Resist the pressure to find work; the answer to doing nothing is not “getting a job”, that
is pure slave mentality. It may well be that you have time to kill but no money to spend,
so you’re going to have to be creative. A tough person isn’t crushed by having no
money, it motivates them – go out and get it, earn it, make it, print it, win it; anything!
Use your imagination.
Make the most of the summer you have. Enjoy yourself. At the same time you can keep
your eyes open for money making opportunities…they’re all around.
[Beer-Mile Challenge: On a standard 400m athletics track - at the start line, drink a pint
of beer then run one lap; on completion of the first lap drink another pint of beer and
then run a second lap. Do this until you have completed four laps and drunk four pints
of beer. Cans of beer, lager or cider can be used instead of pints. Time how long it takes
to complete and compare with your friends]
Brotherhood
There may be times when you and your brothers have your backs against the wall. You
are overrun with no escape, in which case you will have to fight like demons. Your
inevitable war wounds will be a badges of honour and your scars the sign of a fighter.
Over time you’ll get to know whom you can rely upon when trouble comes calling.
They’ll have earned their stripes and your trust - they are your army.
The Mafia have a Code of Honour called Omertà which implies that its members must
never, ever, cooperate with the police, even when one of them has been a victim of a
crime. A person should avoid interfering in the business of others, and absolutely must
not inform the authorities of a crime under any circumstances - though if justified he
may personally avenge an attack on himself or on his family by Vendetta. Even if
somebody is convicted of a crime he has not committed, he is supposed to serve the
sentence without giving the police any information about the real criminal, even if that
criminal has nothing to do with the Mafia. It is deeply demeaning and shameful to
betray even one's deadliest enemy to the police. Within Mafia culture, breaking Omertà
is punishable by death.
The State and the police say you shouldn’t sort things out for yourself, but the real street
warrior doesn’t listen to that shit – sort out your own problems. Be good to people who
support you, ignore people who have nothing to do with you and deal with people who
are working against you.
You must do anything for your brothers; if one is in need, no matter what you’re doing
and no matter what time of day, you must drop everything to help him. He would do
the same for you. A gang, business or enterprise cannot survive without loyalty and
solidarity.
One way society tries to control you is to separate you from your friends and undermine
your support; but the strength of ten loyal brothers who would die for each other is
magnified ten times. Like the Hydra of Greek mythology - when one head is severed
two more grow in its place.
TASK - Get together with your mates and discuss some sort of project or scheme that
you can start - music, sport, art, money…anything. It can be a completely new idea or
something you’ve seen others do. Draw up a plan and decide who does what based on
individual strengths and talents. Utilise the resources you can find. Don’t worry about
small mistakes, they can be ironed out as you go along. Don’t tell anyone outside the
group what you’re doing unless it is helps you in your aims. With the power of five or
ten friends you’ll be surprised at what you can achieve.
Don’t stop there. Carry on. You’ll find that your life will start to diverge from the
masses who go about their lives with their heads in the sand.
In creating something special there’ll be challenges you will have to overcome, some
seemingly insurmountable; this is when a strong network of loyal and reliable friends
comes into its own. Always stick by your brotherhood.
Asteroid threat and you
Draw the curtains, turn off any noise and switch off the lights. Sit very still - don’t
move. Can you feel it? Can you sense something? The Earth is traveling through space
at 20,000mph – that’s twenty-six times the speed of sound. Our planet is spinning on
its axis as it revolves around the Sun, and our solar system is travelling through the
Milky Way which is speeding through the Universe. This has been the case for billions
of years. All this is happening without anyone noticing or thinking about it.
Here’s the thing: In the grand scheme of space and time you’re nothing. In essence,
your life is meaningless so it’s up to you to give it some meaning. Don’t spend your life
being a soft, weak, stupid, pathetic coward, afraid to do this, too scared to do that. At
any moment an asteroid could collide with Earth – you could be obliterated at any
time...the whole planet could be smashed to pieces. Will God or any other devine being
give a shit about you? Of course not. The same way you don’t give a damn about the
life of an ant.
TEST – For the next two weeks, if you’re always good...be bad; and if you’re always
bad…be good. Being the opposite of how you normally are is a great way to become
mentally strong and open up new experiences and opportunities. All weak people are
stuck in the same old habits, unable to break out of behaviours and beliefs which makes
them fools. Many older people are experts at being fools in this sense, their brains are
fossilised.
Rather than thoughtlessly acting on impulse - curb your instincts, control your actions
and do the opposite. This is not saying that the way you are now is wrong, just that you
need to be aware of the possible limitations in the way you think and act.
For the goody-two-shoes - the reason you are good isn’t just that you’ve been “raised
properly” and have morals; it’s because you are scared of acting bad. You are fearful
of the consequences of acting bad and you don’t have the confidence to face
confrontation - you are timid. You have thought bad things but you don’t have the
courage to carry them out. You may convince yourself that logic and reason stop you
from doing bad things, but that’s just an excuse covering up your fear. Now is the time
to stop using your niceness as a mask and do what you feel inside. Be a man.
For the badass - you are scared of being nice through fear of people thinking it’s a
weakness. So you act tough. Further, you may be paranoid that everyone is down on
you on purpose – which can’t possibly be true.
If you’re bad because you “like being bad” you will ultimately become a victim of your
own foolishness and limited thinking. There are times to be bad and there are times to
be good – recognize the difference and start to control your destiny. You never get time
back, so start now.
Unleash the beast
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was a 16th century Italian sculptor,
painter, architect and poet. Known simply as Michelangelo, many consider him one of
the greatest artists to have ever lived. He had something interesting to say about making
a sculpture - he said that when he was carving a huge piece of marble he was only
revealing what was already inside, the statue was already there, waiting to be
uncovered. This is the case for you as well. Inside you there’s an atomic force - a force
of Nature. It is up to you to let it out before it dies, as it has with many of the older
people around you. It’s the genie in the bottle. If you harness it for your own benefit
you will become virtually unstoppable.
You may think this force only exists in atomic bombs and nuclear power stations, when
in fact it exists in everything. From the tiniest microorganisms under your feet to giant
stars bigger than our entire solar system, everything has this force. All of the people
who have utilised its raw energy to the max have become great leaders, great criminals,
great minds; great athletes, great warriors – individuals who have shaped the history of
the world. This is the ‘Beast’ waiting to be unleashed.
People are doing their best to stop you from developing it because they are scared of it.
Developed to its fullest extent it is fucking fearsome. It doesn’t care about good, bad,
or any place in-between. Love, co-operation, empathy, caring for the weak and all the
things a civilised society goes on about - to atomic force all that is bullshit, it can destroy
it in a second. It could (and will eventually) smash up the world without hesitation.
Albert Einstein, the famous theoretical physicist, showed that a single atom has enough
energy to set off an unstoppable chain reaction. If you tap into your innate energy you
could use it to create something awesome, something special…something which takes
you to a level you would have thought unobtainable.
How to start;
Face your fears. Do the things you normally shy away from. Unleashing the beast
means that your mind has to become like tempered steel - that won’t happen if you’re
timid like a mouse.
Don’t be scared of pain. To get stronger and tougher you have to embrace the idea of
pain. Get someone to punch you in the face, take your licks. Pain is a good thing in that
it tells you to take your hand out of a flame; fear of pain, however, becomes a self-
limitation, an excuse not to attempt something. This is what you have to overcome.
Eliminate negative people: If you want to build an empire you need constructive ideas
and thoughts - there should be no room for purely negative and cynical individuals.
Negative people love spreading their negativity around. They will discourage your
efforts because they are losers, and losers don’t like winners. Look carefully at the
people around you – if any are negative about you or your potential, drop them
immediately from your life.
Build your body. There’s a saying that, “you can’t fire a cannonball from a canoe”. No
wild beast is soft and weak, how would it survive in the wild? Modern life weakens
your body. If you want to be a warrior, build your body so it becomes like a battleship.
Don’t take “no” for an answer. If you need to do something important to advance
your cause, don’t accept “no”. You’ve been told it’s polite to ask, and so it is, but you
will never get anywhere if you listen to what people say you can or can’t do. Only at
school do you get a gold star for being polite. Of course it’s good to get on with people,
but don’t be a mug when obstacles are in your way.
Don’t stop. Why people are scared of a Pit Bull is that when it attacks it doesn’t stop.
The only way to make it stop is to practically kill it. Whatever quest you undertake,
adopt a Pit Bull mentality. Don’t let anyone or anything stop you.
Inside you is a fearsome energy – unleash it, let it out; don’t hold back. Atomic force is
the strongest force in the universe; use it to demolish all your fears, weaknesses and
timidity. Build what you need to build and destroy what you need to destroy. Don’t care
about good, bad, or any place in-between.
Street Olympian
Let me give you an example of the difference between sport and street: Some years ago,
a top-level 800m runner, who was also a part-time policeman, came across a shop
robbery in progress. The teenage perpetrator, on noticing that he’d been seen by a cop,
did a runner. Now, you’d expect that our policemen would have been able to catch the
young robber, but he couldn’t - no matter how he tried he just couldn’t collar the kid.
In a competition on an athletics track the cop would easily outrun the teenager - a top
800m runner can run 400m in 45-47seconds, it’s extremely unlikely that any kid could
match that. Here’s the difference…the street kid was a product of his terrain; agile and
clever like a wild-animal. He utilised his environment, jumping over walls, zipping up
stairs, getting through gaps, under things and over things - taking advantage of his
surroundings. [Note: If you take on someone in their terrain you are automatically at a
disadvantage. It is easier to win if you are playing to your strengths and their
weaknesses]
Never confuse your ability in the sports arena, boxing-ring, club, track, gym and so on,
with your ability on the street. Of course, there is a cross-over but it only goes so far.
For instance, you may be a fast runner but what happens if someone gives you a dead-
leg? Your ‘strength’ will be neutralised in an instant. If you abide by rules and codes in
a street fight you will be taken by surprise by a jackal who has no rules or notions of
fair play. In a real street fight, hit first, hit hard, stay on your feet and be prepared to run
if you are overwhelmed.
It is not easy to define the qualities needed to be a Street Olympian - there are multiple
scenarios that pan out on the street and life which will catch out even the most able
person. However, being strong, athletic, brave, courageous and intelligent are qualities
that can only be good. Being stupid, weak, afraid and cowardly are qualities which will
result in you becoming a victim of the bully, boss, or any shit person or situation that
passes your way.
Sport is a competition with rules. Life is a competition with no rules or different rules.
No doubt our cop thought he could catch anyone, but real life isn’t an athletics track.
Us vs Them
You are at war with forces that want to turn you into one of them. These forces are
everywhere. They want you to become part of their Zombie Nation. They want you to
lie down so they can walk all over you. Politicians try to control you by writing laws
and enforcing them through the police and the legal system, which is ironic as the legal
system is corrupt and the police-force has more criminals than the Mafia.
Be wary of anyone in a uniform, as soon as a person wears a uniform they start acting
like a prick on a power trip. However, these people are weak, they get their strength
from what they’re wearing – if you have no respect for their uniform, ignore what they
say and fight back, their courage disappears like a fart in a hurricane.
Part of being a warrior is that you fight for your individual freedom and liberty. It is
better to die free than to live the life of a slave.
There are so many rules and regulations that normal behaviour is against the law. If
you’re in a street gang you may have minor skirmishes against gangs from other estates
and areas, but open your eyes and you’ll see that your real enemy isn’t the kid in another
postcode, that’s bullshit; your enemies are the forces that want to bleed you dry of your
individuality and replace you with a robot. They want to knock you down, pick you up,
and knock you down again until you can’t take it anymore, then you’ll do anything they
say.
In an instant you and your brothers can reverse this by deciding how you want your
lives to be, and having the courage to stand firm against others. When you live by your
own codes and rules and don’t care what others think, you are free – but it’s inevitable
you will clash with the individuals and authorities who think they have a right to tell
you how you should live your life. If you are fucking them off you are doing something
right. Relish the fight and enjoy the battle! Your future is in your hands not theirs.
CHALLENGE - Every day for the next seven days find a stupid rule or regulation and
go out of your way to break it. You will most likely find there are no consequences as
there is no one around to enforce the rule; they are relying on you to do what you’re
told even when they’re not present because they regard you as docile sheep.
If someone in a uniform tells you to take a hike, ignore them – they’re scared of you.
The more you break nonsensical rules and regulations the less timid you become and
the less you fear the consequences of not doing what you’re told.
Responsible people will say that breaking rules for no reason is mindless, “the rules are
there for your protection and benefit”. Reject this; they are the mindless, they are the
clones who go along with everything they’re told to do. You are doing this on purpose
to vaccinate yourself against zombiefication. This is far from mindless - it’s because
you have a mind that you agitate and shake up their bullshit. Additionally, breaking a
rule every now and then makes you feel alive.
Remember - when people in power have control over you in the big things, they’ll start
trying to control you in the little things. Don’t let them.
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